Re: new to redhat
Johan Scheepers <[email protected]>
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On 16/11/2010 21:01, Bob McClure Jr wrote: > Hi Johan, > > On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 08:28:37PM +0200, Johan Scheepers wrote: > >> Good day, >> >> I have ordered some RH 9 cd's. >> > Umm, why? RH 9 is extremely antique and no longer supported. That > means you can't get any security (or any other) updates for it and > will be vulnerable to crackers. Furthermore, if you machine is very > recent, it may not support the hardware very well. > > >> Done some home work on google. >> Some knowledge of debian squeeze and opensuse 11.3. >> > I've no experience with either of those. > > >> Being a pensionar I do have the time to fiddle around with different >> distros. >> May need some assistance along the redhat way. >> > If you want to mess around with Red-Hat-ish distros, you want either > Fedora (version 14 is just out)<http://fedoraproject.org/> or CentOS > (v5.5 is current, and v6 will be out soon)<http://www.centos.org/>. > Fedora is the cutting edge trial area for what will become a real Red > Hat release. CentOS is the free variant of the current Red Hat, and > is nearly exactly like RH except for the branding and (of course) > support. > > If you are new to Linux, especially if coming from Windoze, you might > want to consider Ubuntu<http://www.ubuntu.com/> which is a derivative > of Debian, but is geared more for the Windoze escapee. It has more > recent stuff than CentOS, but more stable, and for the most part, Just > Works. > > All three distros mentioned can be set up to auto-update, so that you > always have the latest and most secure stuff. > > >> Regards >> Johan >> > > Cheers, > Good day, What can I say. Due to ignorance. Starting to download Fedora 14 iso for cd. Should I join a Fedora list or is this correct? Thanks to all that responded. Regards Johan _______________________________________________ Redhat-install-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-install-list To Unsubscribe Go To ABOVE URL or send a message to: [email protected] Subject: unsubscribe